Online bidding is officially underway! Starting right now, you can bid on nearly 100 amazing paintings from our favourite artists at our online auction site. Or come bid in person at the reception this Thursday Nov 15th from 6 – 9pm at Artscape Young place at 180 Shaw St. Or both. It’s your chance to get some great, small paintings (perfect gift size, actually) for a great cause – to help raise funds for people coping with the costs of cancer.

HOW TO BID ONLINE
1. Create an account at 32Auctions.com/smallcures
2. Click ‘View all Items’ to browse the paintings
3. Submit your bid ***If someone outbids you, you’ll get a notification so you can bid higher***

I created these three small 6″ x 6″ acrylic paintings (Titled: Strut, Forge and Swagger) for a charity called Small Cures in Toronto to help raise funds for people who are living with Cancer. My good friend Kandie Wong was been diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2015. She soon realized that the disease affects all aspects of life – including adding lots of financial stress. Kandie received tremendous support from family and friends, and now her wish is to help others in a similar situation.

Cancer patients need a cure for worrying about money while they should be focusing on getting better. A cure for lost wages because they can’t work. A cure for bills that keep coming in. A cure for hospital parking fees, for medications that aren’t covered, and for making sure there’s food on the table.

If you’re in Toronto from Nov 12-15th 2018. There will be an art show and auction where these paintings will be up for auction. 100% of the proceeds will go to this charity, #SmallCures.

Squeezing another quick and fun illustration in between commercial work. This one is called ‘Ding Dong, it’s Dog’. See the process below from pencil to pixel. Done on the iPad Pro’s Procreate app. For more updates, follow us on the gram.

Kick-starting the week off with this fun little illustration called ‘Dawg Gone It’.
Been trying to build up a bigger body of personal work while juggling a million commercial projects has been hard but rewarding. Dug up this older sketch in my sketchbook and decided to give it a go. If you’re interested in a print, drop us a line. We might make a few prints for the holidays and you can always visit us at the studio store in the West End. We’re usually here Mon – Fri from 10am – 6pm.

Here’s a closer crop version. Can’t really make up my mind on which version is better. Full illustration or closer crop?

Wanna see the illustration process? well looky here. Hit that play button below.

The rough concept sketch. Nothing beats the feeling of drawing on paper with a good old-fashioned pencil.

Here are the Gender neutral bathroom signage designs (part of a big interior design project we worked on in collaboration with Perkins + Will Vancouver) we created for a gaming company that makes video games for both Marvel and Transformers in Vancouver. We created a total of two designs for both bathrooms. Bathroom 1: Full bladder Thor and Tarene, Bathroom 2: Full bladder Hulk and She-Hulk.

A short but fun time-lapse video of the mural we created in collaboration with Six Hundred Four and EVO CarShare. The mural is located at 160 Water St. in Gastown Vancouver. This was a real fun piece to create as no projectors were used due to the weird location being at the entry and exit point of a parkade. Instead, we used a grid system and free handed the entire piece using Molotow markers. The mural took 2-3 days assisted by Aiken Lao and Mo from EVO.
Video was shot, cut and edited by the good folks at EVO Car Share.

The collection that was on exhibit was insanely good. Under one roof, they had Koons, Gursky, Kelly (one of our favs! Second time seeing Kelly’s work in person), Basquiat, Baldessari, Warhol, Haring, Kusama (finally we got to see her installation ‘Longing For Eternity’!), Lichtenstein, Murakami, Therrien and much more. It was a real treat and definitely one of the biggest highlights of our trip. If you ever get the chance, it’s a must visit destination!